The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-18

A SHANGHAI telegram says a rich
Christian merchant named To has been
executed there in disregard OF French
mediation in his behalf This is taken as
an indication that China has determined
to maintain her denial that France has any
exceptional right to protection on religious
grounds.
THE press of Russia is very bitter in its
denunciation of the alleged atrocious treat
ment of captured revolutionists by the
Bulgarian regents.
The Illinois Legislature is considering a
proposition to purchase for the State the
old Lincoln homestead.
THE National Base Ball League meeting
at New York closed up its business on the
9th, and adjourned until next year.
THE British Admiralty exonerates the
American Legation at London from any
part in the navy-yard scandal for which
Draughtsman Terry was dismissed.
On the 9Th the assizes at Dublin were
closed by the court, the announcement be-
ing made from the bench that the juries
were sure to acquit the accused.
INFORMATION has been received at the
Treasury Department that many trade
dollars presented for redemption at New
York have been split and filed so skill
fully as to almost defy detection.
THE United Labor party of Akron, O.,
have put a full city ticket in the field
THE Republicans of the Twenty eighth
senatorial district of Virginia have nOmi-
mated a negro.
THE Governor of Alsace-Lorraine has
accomplished the dissolution of two hun
dred anti-German societies within his iu-
risdiction since the recent elections.
OK the 9th the largest importation of
foreigners made by one steamer for some
time was landed at Castle Garden, New
| York, from the French steamer Cheri-
I al tai
| ians.
THE trouble at the Roger Williams Uni
versity (colored), Nashville, Tenn, is re-
ported adjusted.
TIE British navy-yard scandal is a fruit
full topic in London. The officials appear
to shrink from the investigation.
TWENTY -FOUR HUNDRED miners have
| struck in the Borinage district, Belgium.
THE time for the reception of proposals
| for furnishing steel for guns and armOr
! has been extended by the Secretary of the
Navy from March 10 to March %.
/ THE Governors speech at the opening
/ of the New South Wales Colonial Parlia-
| ment announced the introduction of a bill
/ to protect the colony against the influx OF
| French criminals released from New
! Caledonia.
| A NEW belted cruiser the Galatea, was
! launched on the 10th from the Napier yard
! at Govan, on the Clyde, just below Glas-
! Cow Lord Charles Beresford was on
| board, The Galatea is 800 feet long,
between perpendiculars, fifty-six feet ex-
/ treme length Of beam, and thirty-seven
! feet deep. Her draught of water is nine
/ teen feet, and her displacement will be
| 5000 tons when in fighting condition.
EARTHQUAKE shocks were renewed in
i Southern France and Italy on the 11th
THE Bulgarian Sobranje is to be de-
manded to furnish that country with q
more stable government
THE Fren ch Government party received
a marked reverse in the Chamber Of Dep
uties on the 11th, in vote on an admins
| trative measure.
THE Septennate bill was put through
the formalIty Of final passage in the Ger
man Reichstag on the 11th. 1t was carried
| by an overwhelming majority.
THE gold coin and bullion in the treas
ury, less S1O,O13, COS gold certificates il
! circulation, amounts to S175, 2S4 977.
! THE circulation of standard silver dol
lars is now S57, ,214, $40 out of a total coin
age of S256, Al, ,64z The silver certificates
in circulation amount to S123, 300, 1893, de-
/ Quoting which leaves S75, 966, 745 net stand
| ard dollars in the treasury.
The total values of the exports of domes-
! tic breadstuffs during the month of Feb
! ruarV, 1887, amounted to Sl1, SSl, ,445, as
/ against SO, 105, 157 for the same time il
1856, and for the eight months ended Feb
ruary %, 1887, SlO4, ,670, 449, against 81, 461,
2S5 for a corresponding period in 1886.
THE keel of the new steel cruiser
| Charleston, which is to be built at SaI
| Francisco will be laid early in April, and
the Carnegie-Pipps Steel Company a.
Pittsburgh is working gangs of men night
and day making the steel plates, the frs
of which are expected at San Fran cisco
some time this week. The iron to be useC
| in the ship is being rolled at San Fran
| CISCO
THE Secretary of State is informed tina
the cholera has spread through parts o.
the Chillan Province of Aconcagua anC
Valparaiso, and is extending along the
valley of Aconcagua toward the sea. A
a station on the railroad between San
tiago and Valparaiso, thirty-fve miles
from the latter, about 800 cases have 81
far been reported, of which about 25l
! nj al